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VOL. XXV. NO. 3.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY U, 1892.
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George W. Cable fays that the Ameri
can literary taste is risiug.
Ia Algicra, North Africa, twelve mill
ton aero, of ban en land have bcon re
claimed and planted in vineyards.
Ono of the fluent possibilities of unl
versity extonsion in tlio United States,
argues tho Washington Star, is in the aid
it will give to ambitious workingmcn.
The number of students now registered
at the University of Michigan, at Ann
Arbor, is 2691, tho largest number ever
attending any American institution of
learning, and leading Harvard by twenty
eight. ,
Chacicj A. Berry, a prominent railroad
man of St. Louis, Mo., believes that the
timo is not far distant when railroad
colleges will be established, as the rail
road business "requires as much technical
knowledge and skill as lw or medicine."
Socrclary of War Elkins has amended
regulations so as to confine the enlistment
in tho United States Army of boys be
tween the ages of sixteen and eighteen
years to tho grade of musicians or to
learn music, and then only to fill a
known vacancy.
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The opening of tho gradunto course in
philosophy at Yale to students of both
exes It on important step in tho higher
education of women. It will certainly
lead to similar privileges at other uni
versities which havo hitherto deniod de
grees to women, predicts tho San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The poultry products of the United
States Inst year amounted to nearly $20.1,
000,000; no less than 18,000,000 dozen
eggs were imported at a cost of nearly
92,600,000, while the annual importa
tion, for the past four years has been ff2,
216,826. With these facts before them,
marvels the New York Independent,
some still cnli poultry raising a trifling
occupation.
What the New York Independent
calls "a most timely article" appeared
recently in a Japanese vernacular paper,
lamenting tho strong inclination which
young men display toward political life.
Men without nny aptitude for politics
waste their energy in disctissiug current
questions. Such persons nro urged to
turn their attention toward some other
spheres of action equally important and
noble. Such advice is greatly needed by
the young men of Japan to-day, and a
careful following of it would conduce to
the future safety of the country.
Says the Louisville Courier-Journal:
"A good deal moro gold coin would be
in circulation if it were uot for the fact
that many persons hoard small amounts
of it, though thsy are no more benefited
by this saving tbau if it wero silver or
paper. Theso hoarders are chiefly
women, many who keep every gold piece
they find in the pockets of their husbands
and hold on to every one that comes to
them in any other way. It is just as
well that this should be so, as handlers
of much money prefer paper to any kind
of coin. The ladies may as well keep
their gold pieces out of circulation nt
long as possible."
Protection from tho contagion of
leprosy is becoming a serious sourco ol
concern in Louisiaua. A young lady,
connected with one of the old Creole
families of Louisiana resident in Ibor
ville, recently died of the disease at the
hospital for lepers in Now Orleans, to
which she hud been brought barely a
month ago. Cnsei of leprosy, it seems,
are not uncommon in the parish of Iber
ville, und (hero it was the girl, who was
only twenty years of ago, contracted the
loathsome disease. Licnl treatment was
of no avail, and as a last resort she wool
to tbo hospital in New Orleans, where
her case was found to be past humaD
relief.
Several farmers near Wapakoneta,
Ohio, havo been inf. Jo the victims of
two very smooth fruit tree men through
very ingenious scheme. A well dressed
man, driving through tho country sell
ing fruit trees, would stop at a farmer's
house. Whilo there ho would be taken
very ill and ask tho furmer to hand him
a bottle of medicine out of a grip,
which, however, tho latter would not
find. lie would then ask him to go or
send omobody to town for a prescrip.
tion, giving him a louutuiu pea and a
fruit tree blank on which to writo tho
prescription, and as the modiciuo was of
such nature as to require tho pur
chaser's signature the unsuspecting farm
er would sign it. Just hero stiungor
No. 3 makes his nppuaranco from the
opposite direction, goiu to town, lie
tops for a drink of water, and as ho is
coming back at once and is visiting in
the neigborhood, he is asked to take the
prescription to town. Shortly nfter he
' has gone No. 1 finds his medicine, re
covers, and goes to towu. Iu a few days
the farmer has a note to pay and the
-'ascription never com back.
TWO CIT1E3,
Bid. by I1. they stand, '
These cities two,
But a breath of land
Between them lies;
Above, the self -same skies,
Serene and blue.
' One is full of strife
And weal and woe,
Quick with rent loss life;
The other fair,
Yet of Its Joy, or caro,
No one may know.
Never word doth pass.
Nor any signs;
It. streets ar. soft with grass;
The light winds blow
Like murmurous voice, low
Amid the pines.
And a silence falls,
Profound and deep;
Though the sad heart calls
In IU despair,
No answer comes to prayer
For those who weep.
I know not which is host
Wherein to dwell
Life's strife, or Death's calm rest; '
Not I. who stand
One side this breadth of Inn J;
I cannot tell.
Henry C. Wood, in Frank Leslie's.
ALL UOLLTS DOING.
DY UtLK.N FOIUIKBT O HAVES.
HE yellow sky
barred with lines
of dark cloud,
the ground tight-
irozcn like a
mask of Iron
a windy March
sunset this was
the time. The
old nursery at
Peakllill.lightcd
by the flicker of
a wood fire this
was the plane.
Two girls, seated
on a dilapidated
tiger-skin rug, hugging their knees and
staring disconsolately in the blaze these
wero the persons present.
"Hasty pudding and milk I" said
Dolly Peak. "Thnt isn't much of a
supper. For my part, I think Arthur is
kicky to be detained in town to-night.
The bank managers can't, in ordinary
decency, oiler him anything less thau
sandwiches and coffee. I wish I was a
bank clerk."
"Do hold your tongue, Dolly!" said
Margery. "Do you suppose it isn't as
hard for me to be poor as it is for you?
When I am tho oldest, too, and tho one
that ought to be out in society! It's
enough to drive one frautic to be invited
to the ball nt Skip ton Court, and not be
able to go!"
Margery sprang to her feet and began
walking swiftly up and down the door,
her black hair gleaming in the firelight,
her thin hands clasped. Dolly eyed her,
half In sympathy, half in curiosity.
"Perhaps," said she, tentatively, "if
you bad a dress fit to wear, and could
o, some one might tail in love with
you!"
Margery smiled a scornful smile.
"Stranger things hare happened," said
she.
"Margery" hesitated Dolly.
Wclli"
"Don't pcoplo hire dresses some
times?" "Yes, if they have the money and the
opportunity, and no particular sense of
dignity. Do you thiuk I would wear a
hired dross?"
Once more Dolly hugged her knees.
"Margery," said she, "it sometimes
seems to me as if the world were out of
joint. Our world, I mean. Hero we
are, as poor as Job's turkey or a church
mouse, or any other of those proverbially
poor things. What business have we to
live in a big house like this, with only
old llebecca to take care of us? What
business have we holding our hands
while our brother is working hard as a
clerk, to maintain us?"
"Because Arthur wants us to live like
ladies, in the house where our parents
ud grandparents lived before us!" said
Margery, curtly. "Because we can't do
anything else."
"Don't ladies evpr work, Margery?"
"Dully, don't ask such foolish ques
tions. Of course they do sometimes."
Just then old Hebecca came in, bring
ing a lighted lamp. She drew the faded
moreen curtains, put a fresh log of wood
on the tire, and limped out again.
She was very old, but she had waited
on these girls' mother before I hem, aud
still liked to keep up the semblance of
attendance.
"They're ladies," said Rebecca, proud
ly, "every inch o'them. Look at their
white bauds. Look at the way they
carry themselves."
Half an hour ufterward. Margery
roused herself from a lit of abstraction,
to Unit that sho was alone.
"Why, where has Dolly gone?" she
asked herself.
Aud iu the same moment tho door
flew open, a sudden gust of perfume
freighted the air, and Dolly came in,
with a candle held high above ber head
like Lady Macbeth, a roll of old drapery
under tier arm, and a basket of delicious
white-and-yellow narcissus iu her hand.
"Where have I been?" she repeated.
"Why, everywhere! Up garret, down
into the old green-bouse, into the land
of the possible and impossible! Smell
these flowers, Margery !"
And she held the narcissuses close to
Margery's straight little Greek nose.
"Where did you get them, Dolly, at
this time of year?" cried Margery.
"I planted them in the greenhouse
benches, lost fall. I was determined to
have something to brighteu us up when
the March whirlwinds set iu. It's true
that the hashes are ull broken, but I
tacked old blankets up, and made it
weather tight, and the sunshine pours iu
like gold, aud the old Harrison rose is
in blossom, aud there are lots of blue
eyed pausits, and all theso sweet spriug
tars, Well, I remember the torj we
read about the girl who went to a party
in her great-grandmother's wedding
dress. Girls in stories always discover
dresses packed away in old sandal
scented trunks in garrets, so why
shouldn't we? And 1 went up stuirs and
had a regular rummage."
"Dolly, what a goose you arel"
"I just am, Msrgory. Of course there
was nothing thero but cobwebs and little
bright-eyed mice, and old rags that tho
ragman's groat-grandmother would have
been ashamod of. But I found this old
cream colored silesia back of the mahog
any cheat of drawers. It'Jl make better
curtains for this room than yonder faded
moreen things. Oh, Margery, how pret
ty those narcissus flowers look ia your
hair. Sit still a minute only a min
ute!" She draped the pale yellow stuff artist
icnlly over Margery's tall shouldors; sho
fastened it with a knot of deep gold nar
cissus; she showered the other flowers in
a yellow drift upon the jetty braids ot
her black hair.
"Margery," sho cried, gleefully clap
ping her hands, "what a lovely straight
profile you have I I shall turn artist and
paint you, nnd cnll you Springtime.' "
Margery uttored a suddon exclamation
which made Dolly whirl swiftly around,
anil there, to her infinito otnbarrassment,
stood her brother Arthur, the young
bank clerk, with another gentleman-
Mr. Somerset, of Skipton Court.
"Is it a tableau?" said that young
man, smiling, "or a full drew rehearsal?"
Margery filing off tho pale yellow
draperies the narcissus stars rained
down on the shabby carpet at her feet.
"It's only Dolly's nonsense," she said,
with a glance of smothered indignation
at her sister.
"Oh, but what a pity to spoil the
effect?"' said Somerset. "Such lovely
flowers I .My sisters are besieging the
florists' to get just such blossoms for the
ball decorations. Speaking of toe ball,
Miss Peak, we are determined that you
shall reconsider your refusal to come,
because "
And Dolly, going from Ihe room in
conscious disgrace, lost the rest of tho
sentence.
Down in the kitchen the only othor
roora in which there was a fire there
ensued a lively discussion between old
Hebecca and her young lady.
"My doario sweet," coaxed tho an
cient servitrcss, "you can't?"
"But I can!" said Dolly.
"But you mustn't, Miss Dolly I"
"But I willl" cried Dolly, .with a
stamp of her ill-shod foot.
"You're a Peak, dearie,, of Peak
Hill."
"But you're not, Becky. Dear Becky,
good Becky, if you put on the old
sleighing hood and blue spectacles, no
ono will know you. And poor Margery I
Think of Marjory! Oh, Becky, you
will you must!"
The soft kisses on Rebecca's cheek,
lip, brow, were enticing beyond every
thing. She felt hersolf yielding.
"La, child," said she, "don't stifle
mel If I must, I must!"
The next morning Margery Peak
sauntered down to the old greenhouse.
"If the (lowers are really there," laid
she, "I may as well pick them and send
them to Skipton Court. It'll be a neigh
borly thing to do, aud Why, where are
they I Dolly, 1 thought you said "
In the middle of the old place stood
Dolly in tho attitude of a tragio muse.
"They've all been picked and taken
away in the night," said she, dramati
cally "every one!"
"Gooduess me!" cried Margery.,
"Who ever heard of such a thing? Who
can have done it?"
"Of course," sighed Dolly, "the door
is never locked. Any one could have
done it."
The night of the ball at Skipton Court
arrived. Once more the sky glowed yel
low as the sweet spriug jonquils them
selves aud tho wiud howled down tho
chimney of the nursery. Ouce more
Margery sat on the old fur rug, .thinking
sadly.
"Mareerv I" breathed a soft voice.
"Dolly, aro you there?" cried tho
elder, with a start.
'Yes, I'm here. Listen Margery.
When we were children, don't you re
member how we used to play at 'Making
Believe?' Well, let's make.believe now.
Suppose we had a grandmother, liko the
story heroiues, and she had a wedding
dress; would you liko it to be like this ?"
She shook out the clouds of a soft,
white tullo dress, threaded with woven
gleams of gold, and knottjd up here und
thero with buuehes of yellow narcissus.
Margery sprang to her feet ecstatically.
"Oh, Dolly!" she cried. "Am I
dreamiug?"
"No!" criod exultant Dolly; "It's real
truth 1 I bought the dross aud old Becky
made it after the pattern of your last
white muslin aud I trimmed it with
flowers my flowers."
"Child, where did you get the money?"
"Becky sold the pansies and the nar
cissuses and the jonquils. The florists
would have given any money for more.
They had a big order from Skipton Court.
Now, Margery, 1 know how to earn
money and help Arthur along. As for
you "
"Well, as for me?"
"Why, here's the great -grandmother's
dress, and there's the enchaute 1 ball
room, waiting at Skipton Court, aud the
yellow gold pieces raining down, in the
tho shape of narcissus anl jonquils. And
I shouldn't a bit wonder," sho added
roguishly, "if the royal prince himself
wasn't so very fur oft, because Mr. Somer
set told Arthur that he never had seen
any one as beautiful as you were that
night when you sat iu the firelight
draped in amber silesia aud crowucd
with flowers. Quick 1 let me help dress
you, Margery. There isn't a moment to
lose.'1
"Yoj dear little good fairy!" cried
Margery, with swimming eyes. "But I
must stop long enough to give you a
kiss. How did you ever come to thiuk
ol it?"
For ouce iu a way thiugs happens 1
just exactly as they ought. Mr. Somer
set was already half ia love with Mar
gery Peak, and the ball room experience
concluded the other half of tho delicious
captivity.
When she came home, early in the
windy spring morning, Dolly was sitting
up for her, drowsy but smiling.
"Weill" cried Dolly, rapturously.
"Do you know, Margery, I've been
dreaming in front of the firo here? And
what do you guess I dreamed? That
Louis Somerset asked you to bo his
wife!"
Margery's sweet, flushod faco drooped
on bcr sister's shoulders.
"It wasn't a dream, Dolly," sho
whispered. "It was tho truth, and I
think you must be a magician 1"
"One nsodn't depend much on the
magic art," said sagely Dolly, "if ono
keeps one's ears nnd eyes open. I knew
he was in love with you long ago. Oh,
hw sweet the flowers smell !"
"Poor things!" said Margery, caress
ing tho drooping petals; "they are all
withered. He took one of them, to keep
forever ho said. I shall always lovo
narcissus after this! And to think,
Dolly, dear, that this was all your do
ings!" Saturday Night.
A Great Apple Orchard.
Tho Wellhoii'e orchard of Kansvs is
becoming knewn the world over. This
orchard is a piece of good, well drained
soil, about ono thousand feet above son
level. The trees were planted In trenches
ra ther than in holes, the trenches be
ing made by plowing out furrows
nearly or fully ten inches in depth.
Trees are thirty-two foot apart, east and
west, and twelve feet apart, north and
south. Corn was planted between the
trees while young. After tho trees have
come into bearing the ground is sown to
clover. This is cut down every year
when tho seod is ripe. The tool used in
the operation is a homo made rolling
cutter, consisting of a stick of timber
twelve or fifteen inches square and ten
feet long. The corners aro dressed off
so as to form an octagon, and eight
knives, running the whole length, are
inserted, one at each corner. This stick
of timber is fastened in a frame, nnd
revolves in it when pulled over tho
ground by teams, its own weight boing
sufficient to chop up the clover and
chance weeds. The trees are all low
headed, trained in pyramidal form, with
limbs starting out about one foot from
the ground. This is best, as the bodies
of the trees must be protected from the
fierce sun rays, otherwise they will bo
sun scalded and ruined. An ordinary
box trap is used for tho rabbits, which
are very plentiful. Most of the insect
enemies are destroyed by spraying with
London purple. Almost five-sixths of all
the fruit thus grown can be reached by
the pickers while standing on the ground.
In the packing house the apples are
carefully assorted by hand. Three and
even four grades are made. All unfit
for other use are left in the field or fed
to hogs. The yield on the 225 acres in
1880 was 1S94 bushels; in 1890, 79,170
bushels. The Missouri pippin is the
best yielder, followed by wine sap, theu
by Ben Davis, Jonathan, and lastly by
maiden's blush and Cooper's early. The
last named is not profitable. The most
fruit and most money has been obtained
from the Missouri pippin, but the trees
are becoming exhausted and fruit small.
Ben Davis is now the leader. The ex
penses up to the time that the trees came
into bearing (in 1883) aggregated $20,
852, or about thirty-five cents per tree.
Rent of land is not included in this,
however. Western Stockmau.
A Good I'ockct-Knifc.
The costliest pocket-knives manufac
tured for sale are retailed at a store in
New York City, which sells nothing but
knives. There are 1500 different kinds
on exhibition in the window, ranging in
prue from five cents to ifZo. The 25
knife is the costliest known. Tho out
side plates of its handle are solid gold,
ami it contains two small blades only, a
nail tile and a miniature pair of scissors.
There is a little hook in the handle by
which it may be attache! to the watch
chain. The sales of the $25 knife are
very slow.
The largest knife in America is sup
posed to be in Cincinnati. It has fifty
six blades and a chest of tools in itself,
containing almost anything from a tooth
pick to a cigar punch, from a pair of
scissors to a handsaw. It is for sale at
$500 and weighs thirteen pounds.
The largest knife ever kuown was
made by Jonathan Crookes, a workman
for Joseph Rodgcrs iu Sheffield. It had
1821 blades. St. Louis Republic.
A Toet't Definition orroetry.
Whether sung, spoken, or written,
poetry, says L. C. Stcnlmin in the Cen
tury, is still the most vital form of human
expression. Ono who essays to analyzo
its constituents is an explorer undertak
ing a quest in which many havo failed.
Doubtless he too may fail, but he seti
forth in the simplicity of n good knight
who docs not fear his fato too much,
whether his desert be great or small.
In this mood seeking a dofinitioa of
that poetic utterance which is or may
becomo of record a.detlaition both de
fensible and inclusive, yet compressed
into a single phrase I hreve put together
the following statement:
Poetry is rhytluuical, imaginative
language, expressing the invention, tnslu,
thought, passion and insight of tho
hum,u soul.
Helpfulness of Wires.
Hundred of fortune! that lnvoibcco
ascribed to the iudustry of mon bear upon
them tho marks of a wife's hand, declares
Rev. T. Do Witt Talmoge. Burglwm,
the artist, was us luzy as he was talented.
His studio was over tho rcom where his
wife sat. Every few minutes all day
long, to keep her husband from idleness,
Mrs. Bergham would tako a stick uud
thump against the ceiling, and her hus
band would answer by stamping on the
floor, the signal that he was wido awuke
aud busy. One-half of tho industry and
puuctuality that you witness every day in
places of busiue&s ia merely tho result of
Mrs. Bergbais's stick thumping against
ths ceiling. New 'York Observer,
THE ROAllOF GREAT fiUNS.
THE ORDEAL OF SOLDIERS WHO
SUPPORT A BATTERY.
The ICffnct of a Terrific and Continu
nns Cannonade Upon Man, Boast,
lilrrl and Fish
"T "J" ERE arc two field batteries
I twelve, six and nine pounders
I I in nil firing as rapidly as
J" ' they can bo loaded. The re
ports blend into a roar, and you must
raise your voice as if a hurricane was
howling about you. You are not im
pressed, but rather aggravated and
annoyed. There's a snap to each
report like the cracking of a great whip
a spiteful sound which reminds you of
a dog following at your heels with his
yelpl yelp! yelp!
There is no more trying situation for
a soldier than to be lying down in sup
port of a battery. He is only a few
yards in front of the guns, and he not
only feels the full force of the coucussion
as communicated to the earth, from the
"kick" of the gun, but the report itself
seems to strike the spinal column nnd
travel up to the back of the head. Then,
too, thero is the fear of shells explod
ing prematurely or of grape or canister
ter "dribbling" to cause wounds or
death, and it is a positivo relief to see a
column of tho enemy break cover for a
charge. Tho roar of the guns does not
linger for hours after, as is tho case with
mortars and siege guns, but you find
your nerves on edge and your temper
spoiled for a day or two. The men who
lay in lines with a battery firing over
tbem probably endured more mental suf
fering than the enemy at whom the guns
were pointed. The tire of great guns is
terribly trying for the first few minute,
but this feeling gradually gives way to
one of awe and sublimity.
There is something terrific and appal
ling you feel yourself so atomless iu
comparison that you would speak in
whispers if the roar could suddenly ease.
You are an onlooker; if assisting to
work a gun, physical activity would tako
away from the mental strain. When
Admiral Porter got his twenty mortar
boats, each armed with an eight and a
half-ton mortar and a thirty-two pound
riflo cannon, at work against the forts
below New Orleans, and the big guns in
both forts had opened in reply, there
was something akin to tho sound of
heaven and earth coming together. The
mortar shells weighed over 200 pounds
a piece, and the rush of them tnrough
the air made one's hair feel as if it
crawled. The venomous hiss of a big
skyrocket wa9 magnified thousands of
times, to be followed by a crash which
seemed to split the sky open into cracks
nnd crevices.
When the firing had continued uutil
nil reports had been merged into one
steady roar there was little short of an
earthquake on land or sea for ten miles
around. The earth shook' as if a great
stcamwnaranier was pounding it a few
yards from your feet. If stauding near
a tree, you could feel the roots letting go
of the soil with a sound like bugs crawl
ing over dry leaves. On the water great
mud spots rose up here and there to
show where the earth, forty feet below
had been disturbed. In the Mississippi
River itself huge catfish leaped above
the surface in fright and pain or fhated
aud were carried along with the current,
gasping for breath. Out on the blue
water air bubbles as large as dining
plates floated to the surface and bursted
with a snap, and fish of all kinds exhi
bited the greatest confusion and alarm.
Thirty miles away ths roar was like
that of a gale sweeping over a pine for
est. Horses aud cattle sought to hido
away, birds flew about iittcriug cries of
distress, and dogs pointed their noses
toward tho sky and howled dismally.
Birds aud fowls felt tho uir aud earth
waves long before human beings did,
and their uctions were so queer as to be
come alarming. Tho coming of the roar
to those afar of was preceded by a jar
ring of the earth and a moaning in the
air. Spriugs overflowed, and the water
iu we'.ls circled around as in a whirl
pool. The wildest species of birds left
the woods and thickets and came flying
about the houses, au 1 rabbits deserted
thtir burrows and sought the companion
ship of domestic anin.als. The thunder
storms of a score of years combined
could not have rent the heavens nor dis
turbed the solid earth as that canuonado
did.
If the beginuiug was painful aud ex
asperating the ending was something to
be remembered for its grandeur. Ono
mortal after another, ono great gun after
another, was silenced by order. The re
verberations had traveled through air
and earth and water a distance of fifty
miles. They now seemed to return
back to the guns. The rent aud riven
skies had kept up a constant mouuiug
and ccmplaiuiug. Those sounds gradu
ally died away, as a man in pain tludly
drops olf to sleep. The earth resumed
its solidity again, the suu shone forth
in its old familiar way, nnd the bank of
clouds piled up iu the west and tinged
with gold ull along their lower edges
seemed proof to the eye that the world
still stood us we had lived in it the day
before those monsters awoke and de
manded huuiuu blood and wreck and de
struction as the price of their silence.
M. (Juad, iu W. Louis Republic.
How a Lion Attacks.
An Englishman from Bombay, India,
savs that the nomilar niftnm. nf lima
bounding at their victims misrepresent
uii.amimu s muueoi uiiuc c. LaKe other
fierce auimuls the lions as u rule endeavor
to avoid the spor'smun until wounded,
when, like the tiger, they charge with a
coughing roar. sVheu he dots at aek
you, the lion goes ut great sped close
to the ground ami knocks you olf your
lens, lie sneaks ( oui exnerience. as lie
has killed many lions, and was uenrly
kit ed by one that hu had wouuded. He
was dreadfully luceruted, but says that
the lion's claws uud teeth did uot hurt
his flesh so badly as he suiipoi. I they
would. The really painful )tit of tho
operation was the crunching of the bouts.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
An average man breathes about 20,
000 times in a day.
A process has recently been discovered
for making flour of bananas.
When a belt gets saturated with waste
oil, an application of ground chalk will
soon absorb the oil and make the belt
workable.
A tricycle to be propelled by electricity
and to run at the averago speed of ten
miles an hour his been patented at
Washington.
Bismuth melts at a point so far below
that of boiling water that it can be used
for taking casts from tho most; destruc
tible objects.
Steel is now being used in the manu
facture of fence posts. This is an inno
vation on tho old cedar method, and
promises to meet with extended use.
The Midland Railway in England has
now running between St. Pancras and
Bradford trial trains fitted with a hot
water apparatus, supplied from tho en
gine, for heating the carriages.
Electricity has now been put to many
uses, tho very latest being the working
of a machine which it was said will
revolutionize tho art of stone carving.
The inventor is a Colorado man.
It has been proposed to make the upper
half of war balloons of very thin steel,
and the lower portion of ordinary bal
loon material, the whole so constructed
as to hold hydrogen instead ot ordinary
gas.
The descendants of a single wasp num
ber as many as 30,000 in ono seisnn.
November is the fatal month which kills
them all off, except two or three females,
on whom depends the perpetuation of
tho race.
No animal has more than five toes,
digits, or clows to each foot or limb.
The horse is one-toed, the ox two-toed,
tho rhinoceros is three-toed, the hippo
potamus is four-toed, and tho elephant
and hundreds of other animals are live
toed. Sheet-irort kites, to enablo a vessel
when in distress during a storm to com
municate with the shore, have been sug
gested. It would be a curious experi
ment. Of course, sheet-iron can be
made as thin or thinner than writing
paper.
In its wild state the elephant foads
honrtily, but wastefully. It is carof ul iu
selecting tho few forest trcos which it
likes for their bark or foliage. But it
will tear down branches and leave half
of them untouched. It will strip off tho
bark from other trees and throw away a
Inrere portlou.
Lettuce is a sleepy vegetable. It has
narcotic properties In the milky juice
that exudes when it is cut. The proper:
tics of this fluid are analogous to those of
opium, but without the litter's disngree
iblo after effects. Tho rapid growth of
lettuce in a cold frame diminishes tne
somnolent quality of its juice.
The hop vine is said to be sinistrorse
because it twines with the motion of the
lun, that is, from right to left. Beans,
morning glories nnd all other species of
climbing plants, with the exception of
one of the honeysuckles, are dextrorse,
turning opposite to the apparent motion
of the sun, or from lett to right.
After you have become tired of paying
a tool-maker to forge and grind up tools,
you will try to cast iron tools made out
of old car wheel iron and albuminum al
loy composite, in cither a cupola or cruci-
I 1 . t Tl mill , U . n . I-l.Il 1 IT
bite and not get discouraged ; and will
not require grinding so often as steel
tools.
Electricity for Health.
The value of electricity in hastening
the growth and maturity of certain
vegetable forms, and iu bringiug out the
vivid colots of flower, promises to bo
supplemented by a value more directly
useful to humanity. When Pasteur pro
posed to bring young animals up on
sterilized milk and food he opened the
way to the idoa that the water supply of
cities could be improved, and be made
perfectly harmless, by applying the
death-dealing agency of electricity to
millions of Injurious germs floating in it.
The sterilization of water sources by
means of electricity may bo far iu tho
future, but tho fact that the work is
practically demonstrable is stifticicnt to
sho.f that great advances havo been
made in the direction of solving the
question of water supplies in cities. Not
less imporiaut is the agent iu destroying
lifo in tho sewers of tho cities, and iu
the great mass of garbage aud waste
which scatters around every city whole
cordons of threatening diseases. Aa
other peculiarity of tho powerful agent
is that it has results upon tho general
health of people similar to thoso of the
sun. In crowdod quarters of tho cities
where the sunlight is seldom admitted,
electric light is far more conducive to
health than any other mode of lighting.
It is still a mooted question whether it
cannot be made to force growth in tho
individual as it does iu the plants and
flowers of tho hothouses where the light
Is applied night and day. Youkeo
Blade.
Total Ellipses of tile Sun.
Evory your there must be two cclipcs
of the sun, and there may be live. There
are partial . eclipses, however, excopt in
the comparatively rate cases iu which
the moon pauses nearly centrally over the
sun's disk aud produces a total obscura
tion of his light, riincc the iuventio i of
the spectroscope in 18ti(), there have been
barely a score of total eclipses, and a
number of these could not be observed
because the belt of totality fell at tho
earth's polur region or upon the ore ins.
The belt of totality is a nurruw strip
never more than a hundred and ncvcnty
miles wide where the point of th'i
moon's shadow fulls upon the earth.
Total ei liie8 rarely occur, therefore, at
the same point of tho earth. At Loudon,
for example, there has been no eclip-e
since the year 1140, except that of 1715,
nd there will be uoue during (he next
osotury. Ctotury,
REGAINED.
Like the note that stir and die
When a barp string maps'in twain,
Like a fading sunset sky
After driving wind and raiaj
Like a sound within a shell,
Like an odor in the air.
Like an echo in a dell,
hike's star, remote and fair,
0 my child, thon art tom! '
And thy soul is linked to mine,
As the pale moon draws the sea,
Or the sun lifts up the vine.
In the passion of my tears,
In the blindness of my grief.
Through the melancholy years
I eschewed th. sweet relief;
And I stretched my vearniug hand
Through the dark, roclnup thee near
But to bind me in the bands
Of an ever-haunting fear,
1 smiled on those beside me.
And deemed I did tbee wrong1,
Ami dreamt thou mighst deride me
For sharing joy or song.
Now thy face comes back to me,
All free from tear or stain;
A brighter image of thvsolf,
Triumphant over pain.
I seught it not, for heedless,
I nursed my own despair;
And so I hold it likeness
Of reality most fnlr;
No picture could unfold it
To any stranger's eye;
'Tis like a starlet shining
Within a winter sky.
Good Words,
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A tell-tale The Gcssler story. Life.
The rabbit-hunter is a hare-brained
fellow. Rochester Post.
Outside of diplomatic circles the fish
cries question is often purely one of ver
acity. The time when a woman lias no mercy
is when she gets a mouse in a trap.
Ram's Horn.
"My ideas," insisted the architect,
"were all right. I am the victim of mis
cons'.ruction." It is au aggravation for a hungry
tramp to find ouly a fork in tho road.
Texas Siftings.
Teacher "naus, namo three beasts of
prey." Hans "Two lions and a tiger."
Tolas Siftiugs.
One trouble with the world is that so
many have more reputation than char
acter. Rum's Horn.
The physician is ho man who tells you
you need change nnd then takes all you
have. Elmira Ga -tte.
The man with a "splitting headache"
ought to get a. job at making rails.
Binghumton Republican.
"I hear Cholly Slimpate is sick. Havo
you had any intelligence from him?"
"Not a gleam." Chicigo Tribune.
The only way to win in nn argument
with a woman is to w-Uk off when you
have stutcd your side of it. Atchison
Globe.
Mr. Gurley "Are your family related
.to the Scaddses, of Philadelphia?" Miss
Scadds (haughtily) "No; they are re
lated to us." Life.
Edith "Lord English said my image
was photographed on his mind." Ethol
"Yes, photographs ure usually made
on blanks." Yule Record.
Fair, rosy cheeks had Kitty (.rimes,
Uright eyes and open brow,
She jumped the rop. 000 times
Hhu isn't jumping now.
Chicago Tribune.
Barley (at church fair) "Let's go up
nnd huve that pretty girl tell our for
tunes." Brace "Not any; what's the
use? Don't I know I'm broke."
Graphic.
Sharpson "Old fellow, yon look
seedy. It is time you had a new suit."
Phlatz "I know it, but my tailor re
fuses to h'm to renew the modus vi
vendi." Chicago Tribune.
"Very , pretty surset," lie remarked.
"Yes," she replied. "I don't wonder
that pcoplo write about the shades of
evening. I had no idea that thero were
so many dltlercnt shades or that they
matched so nicely."
.Teams (tho porter) "Hog pardon,
sir; I have bad news for you. Mr. Cnih
box died this morning. Old Skinner
"Died this morning! Now that's just
like Cashbox. He knew this was tbi
busy season." Life.
"Yes," said young Rudjliins, who
sat in calm disregard of the clock, "I
may say that I am a fixture iu our office
now." "I know, Mr. Rmlgkins," she
answered, gently, "but this isn't your
ollice, you know." Lausiug News.
Mrs. Brush "Has the Hanging Com
mittee decided about your picture yet?"
Brush "Yes." Mrs. Brush "Are they
going to hang it?" Brush (dubious)
"I heard t lie Chair nan say lie thought
hanging was too good for it." Brook
lyn Life.
Tho Lecturer ".My hearer., I shall
have to ask your indulgence for a fw
minutes. I forgot my manuscript, aud
have sent my little boy for it." His son,
mounting rostrum (in loud tone.)
"Mamma couldn't Und the writiu', but
here's tho took you copied it from."
Tid Bits.
Overdoing It: Fund Mother "I do
so hope thai George has studied hard at
college. I huve tried to impress upon
bis mind the value of a liberul educa
tion." Father "I uiu afraid, my dear,
that you have rather overdone the mat
ter. I had to send him a check for $500
to-Uay." Funny Folks.
The other day X , tho Bohemian,
on receiving some money from a licit
Uncle, took it into his head to square off
some of bis most pressini. delils. lie
first railed ut his tailor's und heard that
the poor man hud jimt died. His widow,
ull in tears, desired to know the visitor's
errand. "1 huve come to pay my bill,"
he simply replied. "Ah I'' sobbed out
the widow, "if my poor husband hud
only lived till this morning, the shock
might hav. Irou.ht him round," L
Figaro.
New Orleans I'icayuue. I